Pressing Plants


Frank Zappa/The Mothers Of Invention & singles with Frank Zappa's contribution
Verve Records · Bizarre/Reprise Records/Straight/United Artists Records · Discreet/Warner Bros. Records · Zappa Records · Barking Pumpkin Records
Cucamonga/Pal Studio · 66/67 Recordings · Bizarre/Straight · 70's Productions

Discreet/Warner Bros. Records
· US pressing plants
· Canadian pressing plants
· UK pressing plants
References


US pressing plants

Capitol Records, Los Angeles, California.
1976: Find Her Finer/Find Her Finer (promo)
1976: Find Her Finer/Zoot Allures
1976: Disco Boy/Disco Boy (promo)

Capitol Records, Winchester, Virginia.
1976: Disco Boy/Ms. Pinky

Columbia Records, Pitman, New Jersey.
1974: Don't Eat The Yellow Snow/Cosmik Debris (matrix variation 2)
1974: Don't Eat The Yellow Snow/Cosmik Debris (matrix variation 3)
1974: Don't Eat The Yellow Snow/Cosmik Debris (matrix variation 4)

Columbia Records, Santa Maria, California.
1973: I'm The Slime/Montana (version 1)
1973: I'm The Slime/Montana (promo)
1974: Cosmik Debris/Uncle Remus (promo)
1974: Don't Eat The Yellow Snow/Don't Eat The Yellow Snow (promo)
1974: Don't Eat The Yellow Snow/Cosmik Debris (matrix variation 1)

Columbia Records, Terre Haute, Indiana.
1973: I'm The Slime/Montana (version 2)
1974: Don't Eat The Yellow Snow/Cosmik Debris (matrix variation 5)
1974: Don't Eat The Yellow Snow/Cosmik Debris (matrix variation 6)
1974: Don't Eat The Yellow Snow/Cosmik Debris (matrix variation 7)


Canadian pressing plants

Columbia Records, Don Mills, Ontario.
1974: Don't Eat The Yellow Snow/Cosmik Debris


UK pressing plants

CBS Records, Aston Clinton, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire.
1974: Cosmik Debris/Uncle Remus
1974: Cosmik Debris/Uncle Remus (promo)
1974: Don't Eat The Yellow Snow/Camarillo Brillo (solid center)
1974: Don't Eat The Yellow Snow/Camarillo Brillo (push out center)


References

From William Brown:

The DiscReet/Warners' era:
http://www.zappafrenzy.com/singles/1...ik_Debris.html (DiscReet DSS 1312 Canada was pressed by Columbia Records, Don Mills, Ontario, Canada)

Only Terre Haute pressings had "T" or "TII" markings on the deadwax. Pitman either had a faint small stamped "P" on the deadwax, or in the 1973-74 period no stamped indicator at all on occasion. Some pressings from Pitman even had a faint etched "X" on the deadwax. Also, in the 1974 period, the label copy printing on Pitman pressings tended to be clearer than on Terre Haute copies.


From Robert Lyons (Seventies Sevens)

There were not many pressing plants here in the 1970s. The Verve singles, VS-545 and VS-557 would have been pressed at the EMI Records plant in Hayes, Middlesex, as would 'What Will This Evening Bring' (UP-35319) and the two Grand Funk singles, INT-523 and INT-528. 'Tears Began To Fall' (K-14100), 'Cosmik Debris' (K-19201), 'Yellow Snow' (K-19202), 'Dancin' Fool' (CBS-7261) and 'Joe's Garage' (CBS-7950) would all have been pressed at the CBS Records plant at Aston Clinton, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.